Jennifer Lawrence continues to be a champion for positive body image. In an interview with Barbara Walters, the Oscar-winning actress didn't sugarcoat her feelings on body-bashing. "It should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV," Lawrence said. Unf...

There are 52 Tesla showrooms in the U.S. and Canada. That may sound like a lot, until you consider that Ford and Chevvy have 3,000 dealerships each in the U.S. alone. So finding a Tesla store in your neighborhood is a rare thing. The Tesla Model S is...

Google Glass owners got a surprise on Tuesday when Google revealed its iOS version of MyGlass a bit too early. The company subsequently removed the app from Apple’s App Store, but later unveiled a new round of Glass updates (along with an explanation...

With about 680,000 Twitter followers, 70,000 friends on Facebook and more than 4.2 million views of its YouTube videos, meet Spain's unlikely social-media star: the National Police. Among law enforcement agencies, it has the second most Twitter follo...

While English is the most popular language on Twitter, it may surprise you that the majority of published tweets are not in the mother tongue of the company's founders. Just over one-third (34%) of all tweets were in English in September. With 16%, J...

Are you slowly killing your houseplants? Probably. But there might be a reason other than neglect that they’re all yellow and wilting: your Wi-Fi router. An experiment by a handful of high school students in Denmark has sparked some serious internati...

Did you see that latest startup's video? You know, the one with the animation and the bouncy tune? Don't remember exactly? It's not your fault. This year, we saw some innovative launch videos including HelloFlo's "Camp Gyno" and GoldieBlox's controve...

Beauty advertisements often market products to women that they claim will result in poreless, even-toned and wrinkle-free skin we've seen all our lives on the pages of magazines. But when it comes down to it, there's only one product on the market th...

In a push to save money and lives this winter, four U.S. states are dispatching smart snowplows to gather information on road and weather conditions in almost real-time. The high-tech vehicles are part of a new digital intelligence system that is bei...

A team of engineers has designed a smartphone accessory and app that allows users to monitor their own blood cholesterol levels. Think of it as a sort of cholesterol selfie — or maybe a healthie? As researchers from Cornell University explain in a pa...

In this week's viral video recap, a piano at Chicago Union Station played holiday tunes by itself, which delighted some people and annoyed others. More viral highlights include a small dog comforting a crying woman, extreme BMX tricks and a kitten ju...

Malika Begum is one of those people you’re afraid of. Begum is a consultant who flies about eight times a month; she hates losing work time while in flight, and wishes she could talk on her phone at 30,000 feet. “For people like me, we need to be in ...

Apple has sent out an email to iOS developers, announcing it will require all iOS app submissions to be optimized for iOS 7 by Feb. 1. The company also announced the news on its Developer portal. "Starting February 1, new apps and app updates submitt...

During the holiday season, all it takes to spice up your love life is a sprig of mistletoe. With this in mind, Mustafa Khan and George Zisiadis decided to deliver some holiday romance to unsuspecting couples in San Francisco's Union Square. The duo s...

Are you freelancing, running a consulting or side business, or launching a startup? If you're self-employed, you’ll need to tackle your business structure at one time or another, and that decision can influence how you pay taxes, what happens if you ...

Next year's games have some big shoes to fill. Whether it was a blockbuster, Triple-A title or a scrappy indie game, we saw glorious examples of games reaching their full potential in 2013. This year, games pushed the envelope in narrative, whether t...

Figuring out how to use mobile ads for a startup or small business isn't easy. Most entrepreneurs have struggled with online advertising, period. And adding mobile to the mix can seem confusing and expensive. But with so many people on their phones 2...

Before you scoff at the teen section of your local book section, shake off any reluctance, because young adult literature had a great run in 2013. YA novels have well written prose and dynamic characters just like adult lit, and certain titles also i...

LG has launched Chromebase, a 21.5-inch, Chrome OS-based all-in-one desktop computer that aims to do for all-in-ones what Chromebook did for laptops: Provide a simple, cheap, hassle-free alternative. Truth be told, we're guessing on the "cheap" part,...

China's clampdown on Bitcoin continues, and the virtual currency's prices keep plunging. As of early morning on Wednesday, the price of Bitcoin went down to around $500 across major exchanges, its lowest in nearly a month. Two weeks ago, China's cent...

Apple's new Mac Pro will be available to order starting on Thursday, the company announced on Wednesday. The oval-shaped desktop machine for professionals will start with a 3.7GHz, quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor, dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs with 2G...

It was a big year for social media. Twitter made its successful debut on the stock market while Facebook recovered from its troubled IPO a year earlier. We also saw the launch of Vine, the rise of Snapchat and the acceptance of social media by the SE...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Apple announced that all iOS app submissions mus...

Smart Car USA launched an odd promotion on Twitter: The company will dress up a car to look like you if you tweet a picture of yourself. The campaign, which began Tuesday and ends Thursday afternoon, asks fans to tweet a selfie with the hashtag #smar...

Product Name: Game of Thrones 4D Puzzle Map Price: $59.99 Who would like this?: Puzzle enthusiasts, Game of Thrones fans The opening title sequence to the Game of Thrones is perfect. It showcases the important areas of George R. R. Martin's fictional...

Nothing beats the simple pleasure of the holiday season, when you can enjoy cozy days with loved ones, removed from the usual pressures of your work or school life. That is, until you hear your smartphone blurt one of its token beeps, uninvited guest...

A new online crowdfunding campaign is seeking $50,000 to prevent a bittersweet ending to a miraculous story involving a blind man and a seeing eye dog. A seeing eye dog jumped onto subway tracks in attempt to rescue his blind master from an oncoming ...

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